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Suitable Currency? - 9/22/2007 7:22:13 PM   
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Take a look at the coins and paper currency minted by your government [whomever they may be].  Do you feel it represents or correctly summarizes what you believe your country stands for?  And if not, what would you change/alter?


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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/22/2007 7:28:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		No. Our coins are OK, platypus and kangaroo's, etc., but the notes have pics of people that few in Australia even recognise.

I think we should have Dame Edna Everage, Bon Scott from AC/DC and Heath Ledger on 'em.

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/22/2007 7:31:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		We have a dollar coin that is affectionately known as a "loonie".  I think it accurately represents most of the world, don't you? 

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/22/2007 7:56:07 PM   
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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/22/2007 7:59:23 PM   
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ORIGINAL: LadyAmayeta

We have a dollar coin that is affectionately known as a "loonie".  I think it accurately represents most of the world, don't you? 

And don't forget the "toonie," (two-dollar coin for those outside the Great White North), a fairly quirky and odd name in its own right.   As for the iconography on our various cash denominations, I find it generally does a good job of representing Canada -- wildlife on the coins, the Queen, various Prime Ministers...

...people playing hockey on a frozen pond on the reverse side of the five-dollar bill... no, that doesn't scream "Canadian!" at all, now does it...
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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 2:50:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		The Euro. The notes are pretty bland with bridges in different architectural styles Those in the powers that be say they symbolically represent metaphoric bridges between countries. In reality they are made so bland so no one can get over sentsitive about them.

The coins are a little more interesting. Their are thirteen different sets of coins, one for each euroland country. One side of all coins are the same with a map of Europe on it with the currency value. The flip side designed by each nation so each country has its own national symbols on the euros distributed in its territory. Of course they eventually get mixed with euros from other countries.

Some people try to collect a full set of 13 different national euro coins. A total of 104 different coins.

http://www.euro.gov.uk/eurocoins.asp?cntry=at

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 5:38:56 AM   
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Status: offline 		If I had any idea what the UK is or stands for, I could perhaps comment..... all I can say is that the new notes we keep getting are more like Monopoly money than anything that looks valuable. Maybe that summarises the situation?

We need a new Settlement, Constitution and Reform. Urgently.

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 5:41:38 AM   
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ORIGINAL: LadyAmayeta

We have a dollar coin that is affectionately known as a "loonie".  I think it accurately represents most of the world, don't you? 


I used to travel to Canada a lot for work and that was something that always made me giggle. Miss my trips there (except the winter ones that is!)

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 9:34:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen

If I had any idea what the UK is or stands for, I could perhaps comment..... all I can say is that the new notes we keep getting are more like Monopoly money than anything that looks valuable. Maybe that summarises the situation?

We need a new Settlement, Constitution and Reform. Urgently.

E


There is almost a rule by which you can tell the state of a nation. The more decadent the designs on monetary currencies are, the worst state a nation is in.

You can actually test this theory in the British Museum's currency gallery and it is actually true. It does reveal a psychology at work of government's trying to boost their economy's prestige through grandiose designs.

So according to this theory, the austere euro notes show the Euroland economy and general nation perception of their self is in a better state than the British and US ecomomies and general feeling about their nation. Although that isn't apparent now, in theory we should be able to look back from the future and see it to be true.

OK. It's just a theory.

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 9:46:09 AM   
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..... all I can say is that the new notes we keep getting are more like Monopoly money than anything that looks valuable. Maybe that summarises the situation?


Have you noticed how the new notes are very similar in style to the Euro notes? Call me a cynic but I think they are getting us used to the look and feel of the Euro. Euro via the back door.

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 9:51:12 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Lumus

Inadvertently inspired by norarc...

Take a look at the coins and paper currency minted by your government [whomever they may be].  Do you feel it represents or correctly summarizes what you believe your country stands for?  And if not, what would you change/alter?



I've a feeling the queen features somewhere; she doesn't represent me.

George Stephenson, on the other hand, is more my kind of England...industrious, Northern, entrepreneurial.

It depends which England you buy into.

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 10:19:32 AM   
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ORIGINAL: norarc

I'm rather honoured to have inspired a thread all by my little lonesome, however inadvertently.  I'm so proud of me.

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ORIGINAL: LadyAmayeta

We have a dollar coin that is affectionately known as a "loonie".  I think it accurately represents most of the world, don't you? 

And don't forget the "toonie," (two-dollar coin for those outside the Great White North), a fairly quirky and odd name in its own right.   As for the iconography on our various cash denominations, I find it generally does a good job of representing Canada -- wildlife on the coins, the Queen, various Prime Ministers...

...people playing hockey on a frozen pond on the reverse side of the five-dollar bill... no, that doesn't scream "Canadian!" at all, now does it...


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Speaking of Canadian coins.. This was hilarious :) Our dreaded "spy" coin.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270413,00.html

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 10:57:48 AM   
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Speaking of Canadian coins.. This was hilarious :) Our dreaded "spy" coin.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270413,00.html

MC


I saw that one a while back, but I couldn't actually bring myself to believe that people would actually fear a bit of crayon colour on a quarter so much.  Heaven help us all if the Canadian Mint ever puts anything so frightening as colour-changing paint on our coins -- the Eighth Air Force will be on its way before the coins even find their way to the local convenience store.


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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 11:23:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		im in no hurry for new currency- it will have RFIDs in it.

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 11:36:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		The only thing money stands for to me is, value for purchase. Sure as an artist maybe I'd like the art on money to lets say,.. represent the four seasons. Ones for spring, 5's for summer, tens for fall, 20's for winter.

Maybe make it like postage stamps. Breast cancer awareness bills! lol Helen Keller commemorative 5's. Einstein tens. lol Lets celebrate nasa! Orion Galaxy quarters! And that my friends, is sophia's two cents for the day. Did I say Sophia cents? Penny for your thoughts!

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 11:42:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		I metal detect and find several styles of coins, new, old and foreign. I am always fascinated by the different styles of coins. I am always half confused by the foreign coins I find. I love the older american silver coins most of them have a authentic style eagle on it than the newer coins. I never thought what it meant to me.

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 11:48:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		an RFID is an antennae the size of a piece of rice. it is a tracking device. everything will be tracked,.what you buy who has what currency, how much- even till a shirt goes to the dump. nothing will be private.  the ultimate surrender of a people

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RE: Suitable Currency? - 9/23/2007 2:05:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		One of the most beautiful currency notes was the 5 Pound Irish note.
It had a picture of students at their desks and a teacher writing domething on the blackboard in Irish.
Someone told me what it said once but I forget!
Any Irish in here remember?

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